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rickderuiter ("Rick de Ruiter") wrote:

Michael de Adder

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Yesterday, 42 House Democrats joined Republicans to hand the government a blank check to conduct warrantless surveillance on Americans. Democratic leadership fell short by not whipping representatives in opposition to this bill, which would not have passed without Democrats’ support.

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DavidGallagher@sfba.social ("David Gallagher") wrote:

Last Days of Playland, 1968-72
Scanning about 100 slides and trying to sort out the dates, both of these have the same processing date of Sept 1972, one is obviously earlier & was reprinted on a Kodachrome Duplicate slide mount. I mean, there weren't 2 of these benches. #sfhistory #playland #sanfrancisco

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your photography history post for today: by the photography studio of Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843–1863), Woman in Black Taffeta Dress and Lace Shawl, ca. 1850, daguerreotype with applied color, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography

From the The Daguerreian Society: “A daguerreotype is the earliest widely adopted form of photography, introduced in 1839 by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. It produced a highly detailed, one-of-a-kind image on a polished silver-coated copper plate. No negative was involved—each daguerreotype is a unique object…

The daguerreotype was revolutionary: It produced images with unprecedented accuracy and detail; made portraiture accessible to the middle class; and led to the rise of a booming photographic industry during the 1840s–1850s, as studios rapidly spread across Europe and the United States.”

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hugovk ("Hugo van Kemenade") wrote:

@glyph @str4d.xyz You can "Get usage report" at
https://github.com/settings/billing/usage and they'll send you a spreadsheet showing which user used how much (time and cost) of each runner for each repo and workflow.

You'll need to cross reference against your private repos as public ones don't count against the quota.

For example, I've used 55k mins so far in March, other humans 874, Renovate 336, GH Pages 201, pre-commit 26, Dependabot 16, GH Actions 12. Only 4 mins of private repo using the quota.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
chu@climatejustice.social ("Chu 朱") wrote:

If you are in Toronto or Ottawa and thinking about hosting a party, please check out plateshare.ca

It's a volunteer run service by local parents that's totally free. Borrow a set of dishes for your party and don't use anything disposable.

plateshare.ca

Please share this with other groups and let them know we exist. I am no longer on other forms of social media to remind people about us and it makes me sad that usage has done down and people are probably buying disposable stuff from the dollar store.

#Toronto
#Ottawa

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social ("Obsidian Urbex Photography") wrote:

A fascinating collection of vintage microscopes. Some serious steampunk vibes from all that brasswork! Inside an abandoned medical research institute, somewhere in Portugal.

#AbandonedPlaces #Portugal #Steampunk #Photography #Brass #Microscope #Medical

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gvy_dvpont ("Guy Dupont") wrote:

As we wait for Google to lock down our Android devices, I am very proud to announce the new SDK / Developer Program for the Light Phone! You can build/install/share whatever you want, but we’ll be helping publish/distribute Tools that are fully open-source, vetted by the community, and fit the Light ethos.

https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-light-phone-developer-kit/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paul@oldfriends.live ("Paul Chambers🚧") wrote:

@DemocracyMattersALot Interestingly, the last time this happened, the world was fighting Nazis and fascists. Who knew the fascists and Nazi's would be inside the White House. #USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AnachronistJohn@zia.io ("Bitslingers-R-Us") wrote:

It was fun to show off the Raspberry Pi Zero W in a bottle which is running as a public email server.

Even here at the show, some people weren’t happy with the idea of self hosting email and wanted to say it doesn’t work. I let people send email directly to it, watch the logs via a terminal window on the Pi 400 as it’s delivered, and see the email in alpine. They could also send email using alpine to test deliverability and see delivery in the logs.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

If I ever become an evil mastermind, a la a Bond villain, I'll make sure my lair undergoes strict safety review and inspections. I will not be happy if shooting a single gas container will make my whole expensive hidden base explode. Such shoddy construction would be entirely inexcusable.

#Spectre #JamesBond

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

statute moles

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

The Mayo Clinic has surprisingly good restaurants. (Taking mom here for a consultation.)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
endeavorance@astral.camp ("endeavorance 🕊️") wrote:

I am so exhausted by every single platform pushing some bullshit AI features that puport to replace some kind of step in the creative process

I’m doing the creative process because that is *the point of the creative process* and *why my content is enjoyed by my audience*

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:

Question for Python folks: Has there been any serious effort to implement a thing where you import all your application's Python modules, then take some kind of snapshot of the heap, to enable faster application startup, like Emacs's dump/undump implementation? Could be useful for desktop apps and scale-to-zero "serverless" deployments.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
BrianBinh@dice.camp ("Brian Bình") wrote:

The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.

"He's drunk" is just a description.
"He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.

The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".

"Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Downtime during the switch will be minimal (minutes, not hours). I’ll publish a blog post later today with more information about what to expect and how to make the most of the new-to-us features.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

During tomorrow’s omg.lol maintenance window (which begins at 11 PM EDT / 3 AM UTC), social.lol will switch to the Mastodon Glitch Edition fork! :prami_happy: This update will introduce some really nice features that you can read about at https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/. Mastodon Glitch Edition is a well-established and highly-supported fork with demonstrated reliability and performance. It’ll be great for social.lol!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

If something's the future it'll still be there tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or whenever you get around to it.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

Nobody cares about decentralization. Nobody cares about the journalistic process. They care about making their world better. https://werd.io/product-shaped-or-movement-shaped/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
anke@social.scribblers.club ("Anke") wrote:

@codinginquarantine additional image description: 1985: multicoloured static "snow" - randomly coloured pixels. 2005: solid blue. 2025: Grid with logos of various streaming services.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
codinginquarantine@corteximplant.com wrote:

I couldn't stop thinking about this so I had to make it and share it

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jepyang@wandering.shop ("weed") wrote:

some people would have you believe that you need to learn to use AI or you’ll be left behind

same energy as someone insisting they have a foolproof system for beating the house in vegas

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jepyang@wandering.shop ("weed") wrote:

“i know LLMs sometimes make mistakes, but that’s why you gotta learn all the tricks to get the desired output”

“i know the house always comes out ahead, but they put the slot machines with higher payouts by the doors and at the ends of the aisles to make wins more visible to people walking by”

Attachments:

• gifv: The Office Pam GIF (referring to a “find the differences between these two pictures” puzzle she gave to her manager to distract him and let everyone get actual work done) “they’re the same picture”

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the fact that the vendors are all hyperventilating on their blogs, telling me that everyone is doing it, that the time for discussion is over, it's the FUTURE, can't you SEE it's the FUTURE, if you don't buy it NOW you'll be OBSOLETE, just a DINOSAUR, EMBRACE IT OR DIE, BECOME A COLLABORATOR!!! NOW!! BEFORE OUR Q4 EARNINGS REPORT! PLEASE! is not doing a lot to convince me that my impression that it is actually garbage is _wrong_, this is not the sales pitch I usually get for _good_ products

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
forestine@sunny.garden wrote:

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

unpopular opinion: tabbed browsing was a mistake

Mastodon wrote:

If you want to reach someone at Mastodon, get in touch with our leadership team: @mellifluousbox @renchap @haubles @imanijoy @Gargron

Mastodon wrote:

We're sharing that Andy Piper has decided to move on from #Mastodon after three years. We’re grateful for the impact Andy had; his numerous contributions will not be forgotten.

@andypiper joined as DevRel Lead and later became Head of Comms. Andy was integral promoting our mission on stages all over the world and helped lay the groundwork for key areas like developer relations and public relations at Mastodon. Thank you for being part of our team, Andy, and we wish you all the best!

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

YAA TRIED FOR A SHORTCUT GOT TOLD TO FCK OFF LOL

Area: Killeen, TX, USA
Type: Bombardier CRJ900
A: #ad1488be1f5
F: #fafc3f46174

#acars #vdlm2